The Goddard School

Very different day care than other good day cares. My daughter started here in Oct 2014 and spent around 10 months here. This day care has so many problems. Even the owner was not able to keep up with this day care and sold to someone else. You can imagine that how bad this day care is. Let me highlight some of the problems we faced in 10 months —
1. They are heavily under staffed. They don’t have sufficient admin staff and teachers. I have never seen floaters in the class room. They say that they have floaters to help during activities but their floaters are assistant teachers in some other classes.
2. They don’t follow any criteria for lead and assistant teacher. In my daughter’s class, the lead teacher quit and they promoted assistant to lead and brought some high school pass out as a assistant teacher. No education criteria for lead or assistant teacher.
3. They don’t have kitchen. The food comes from outside and very expensive. They don’t provide any late evening snacks to kids. Most of the parents provide lunches and the school has only one refrigerator to keep all the lunch box. So, be ready to spend some time to figure out the space for your lunch box.
4. You need to provide bed sheets, comforter and almost everything to them. They don’t care if the kids has any food allergy and most of the kids eat from other plates which may cause problems to kids if they have allergies.
5. The school closes at 6 PM as compared to other day cares which mostly closed at 6:30 PM.
6. The one things i hate about this day care is the constant turn over of staff and they always have temporary staff to assist kids.
7. In past 10 months no one has ever gave any feedback about the Kids.
8. They are very money minded. I have not seen them celebrating Father’s day, Mother’s day and they do not celebrate Christmas too. They just do not want to spend any money and in June they did hike the tuition fees which make no sense to me.
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We heard about Goddard from one of our friend and we were very impressed with the environment this school offers. This school has well maintained classes and well trained staff. We visited couple of day cares before coming here and we were totally satisfied after our first visit itself. This daycare is perhaps the best in Vinings area. Highly recommended!

Warm & friendly professional Preschool
Our grand kids love the staff. And we are amazed at how much they learn each week
The curriculum is smart and current.
Call for a visit I am sure you will love it
They even like the food that is served.
The owners really care!

The Goddard School Smyrna is a great school with great teachers. All 3 of my children have attended and they love it. They learn so much and feel so comfortable and loved. I have no concern that my child is receiving the best at this school because it shows everyday at home what they are learning and they talk so much about their teachers and friends. They are always excited about going to school and they enjoy the greetings that are received starting from the front office.

As the grandmother of a twenty month old child who has attended the Goddard School in Smyrna for just over a year, I very much recommend this school. When visiting Atlanta, I love to take her to school and am always greeted by the owner and friendly office staff. It is amazing what my grandchild learns each day including vocabulary, foreign language, sign language, manners and more. One recent improvement the school has implemented is to email out a daily record of each child’s activities. My daughter forwards this email to me and I can share what was for lunch, what songs were learned, new signing and what she enjoyed. What a great way for me to feel involved. It’s easy to see how happy she is at the Goddard School and why.

Overall this is a very good school. The only negative I can say is I wish they didn’t have quite as much turnover in the teacher department, but the school itself is very nice and the teachers they do have are great. I love their programs and the staff is top notch. This is a well-​run school unlike some other Goddard schools you’ll come across in the Cobb area and I would recommend this one to anybody.